The following article which appeared in the Orange County Register,
Jan. 21, 1998, pretty much sums up the outcome of our court battle. Pray
for our country. Things will get much worse before we have our nation under
God.

Court Case January 2, 1998

Your Honor,

We stand before you today representing a cross section of our country.
I am a housewife, a mother, a business woman, but most of all I am a citizen
of the United States of America. Born free because of the courage and blood
shed by our forefathers who founded this country under God so we all could
enjoy liberty and justice for all. The same spirit of tyranny from which
our forefathers so bravely fought to free our country has once more subtly
crept into our government from the IRS in Washington to the local government
we are now at odds with. Piecemakers is not on trial today. The judicial
system of our country is on trial. We are, in the courts of law, considered
criminals; not by the people of our fair city but by the governing body known
as the city council. Let me give you a run down of the deeds of the group
of people known as the Piecemakers. By the way, the court order reads "The
People vs. Piecemakers". The people are not versus Piecemakers. The tyrannical
government is versus Piecemakers. They were put in office to protect the
people according to the power and guidelines given to them by the Constitution.
They have way overstepped their boundaries and abused the power entrusted
to them.

From the time we, known as the Piecemakers, was born we were determined
to serve the community to the best of our ability carrying out the will of
God in our lives. He helped us establish a very unique store, school and
wholesale business. We did all that was required to conform to the laws set
down by the city. Only when the code enforcers became so arrogant and the
codes so impossible to fulfill, did we begin to rebel against them. Our
country is like a pot seething with anger over the oppression and burden
put upon us, the working class who are paying your salaries, as we try to
make a living against impossible odds. If it is not the IRS demanding (by
gun point if they see fit) what they consider their share; it is the county
health department with their impossible demands or the city officials who
think the pay they get as salary is not enough for them to perform their
duties they were hired to do but demand we now pay for permits - always and
forever more money, more money until the working class of America is ready
to either throw up their hands in despair or get guns and start fighting
for their rights as our forefathers did.

Any fool can write a code, but the Constitution was written
by men directed by God. These men risked their lives and risked losing all
they owned as they set up a document to protect us against thugs such as
our bureaucrats of today.

Your Honor, you have before you enough legal evidence to drop this
case. The decision that you make will determine how God judges not only our
city, but our country.